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• Did therewith bury in oblivion.
  -- William Browne (1590-1645) -- Britannia's Pastorals, Book ii, Song 2...
• Well-languaged Daniel. -- William Browne (1590-1645) -- Britannia's Pastorals, Book ii, Song 2
• The world 's a bubble, and the life of man Less than a span.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- The World...
• Whose bread I eat: his song I sing. German Proverb
• Happy the people whose annals are blank in history-books.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) -- Life of Frederick the Great, Book xvi, Chap. i...
• Bubble, Bubble..Am I too late to jump the ship ??
• How sweet a thing it is to wear a crown, Within whose circuit is Elysium And all that poets feign of bliss and joy!
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), King Henry VI -- Act i, Sc. 2...
• Ham. His beard was grizzled,--no? Hor. It was, as I have seen it in his life, A sable silver'd.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Hamlet -- Act i, Sc. 2...
• Were I so tall to reach the pole, Or grasp the ocean with my span, I must be measured by my soul
  The mind 's the standard of the man....